Social Worker

I'm a qualified social worker, and have been since I completed my BA degree in Social Work last summer. I'm working as a social worker for a local authority not, with vulnerable adults. It's a very interesting job, but it's also very full on... I've currently got a case load in the mid twenties, and when I'm at work I rarely get a minute's peace. There's always people to ring or visit. My caseload is really varied, and includes anyone over the age of 18 - older adults, adults with physical or learning difficulties, or mental health issues. I originally became a social worker because I wanted to work with people, my degree took three years to complete, ...  Read the complete review

I'm a social work student in my first year of study (UK). In the UK you need either a 3 year undergraduate degree or a 2 year postgraduate masters degree (if you already have an undergraduate degree). You study at university and there are many universities throughout the UK which hold social work courses. To get onto a social work course you will need a good range of experiences within the care industry (paid or voluntary) and good qualifications such as A-levels, Access course and so on. For example, to get a place on the social work course I'm studying I needed BBB at A-level or equivelent UCAS points. UCAS is the organisation in which you apply to university ...  Read the complete review

The year is 1970, a young woman in her early twenties has a brief relationship with a young man of about the same age resulting in a child, a baby boy being born. The young mother wants nothing to do with the baby's father and moves with her baby son, who she calls Simon to another part of the country. In due course, she meets and marries another man and goes on to have a daughter. It will be many years before Simon, by a sheer fluke of circumstances meets his natural father. It is 1986. I trained as a Social Worker and after living in the south of England for many years, I am offered a job with the adoption and fostering services in the north of ...  Read the complete review